This book documents fifteen lanterns inspired by Cairo’s skyline, bringing together drawings, material studies, an imagined dialogue between Charabi and the moon, and photographs by Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin and Ed Gumuchian.
Salem S. Charabi’s first publication following his debut exhibition in Cairo.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition
Behind the Moon Mountain
Salem S. Charabi
Works © 2026 Salem Charabi
Texts © 2026 Seif El Rashidi, Salem Charabi
Photographs © 2026 Ed Gumuchian, Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin
This publication © 2026 Salem Charabi and Noah Emrich
All rights reserved.
Works
Salem S. Charabi
Introduction
Seif El Rashidi
Photographs
Ed Gumuchian and Ebrahim Bahaa-Eldin
Edited and designed by Noah Emrich
Printed and bound by Graphius, Belgium
This publication is set in Mercure, a typeface designed
by Charles Mazé and released by Abyme, and is printed
on Munken Print Cream 1.8, 90 gsm, and Fedrigoni
Sirio Color Rough Dark Blue, 115 gsm.
Limited to an edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-87-977690-0-3
208 pages
15.6 cm × 23.5 cm
October, 2026
